Zdenek Polach
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolZdenek Polach is a veteran software architect and technical leader with over 35 years of hands-on experience spanning system-level Windows kernel and networking drivers, network protocols, and cybersecurity. He has designed and led development of firewall and traffic-filtering components at AVG/Avast and delivered kernel-level self-protection engines at Cisco, while more recently driving virtualization and infrastructure automation (Proxmox, Ansible, Terraform, Podman) and AI-assisted development workflows. Comfortable both coding drivers and coordinating R&D teams, he pairs deep low-level expertise (NDIS, WFP, TDI) with practical leadership in security-focused product delivery. A frequent security community contributor and co-organizer of BSides Prague, he brings curious tinkering energy to homelab and microcontroller projects that inform his pragmatic approach to resilient systems. Based in Brno, he now advises and mentors R&D teams, blending decades of legacy-to-modern experience to accelerate secure, production-ready engineering.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
1995, Information technologies, 1995, Information technologies at Vysoké učení technické v Brně
English, russian - passive
Github Skills (158)
almalinux10
security-hardening10
oscilloscope10
openscap10
security10
ubuntu10
security-compliance10
ansible-role10
debian10
centos10
linux10
pods10
information-security10
apply10
ansible10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
polachz/wsl-scripts
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
WSL automation from automactic any Linux Distribution Image creation (based on DockerHub) to massive deployment and bootstrapping. No Docker Engine necessary!
Contributions:3 reviews, 38 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 1 month
wslbootstrappingdockerhublinux-distributiondeployment
polachz/ShellExtender
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
Linux Scripts to extend BASH and ZSH functionality
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
zshshlinuxbashshellcheck
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